The Rainforest Foundation – Action Alert

The first-ever law in Africa guarding against the discrimination, exploitation and violence endured by indigenous peoples could be passed in the Republic of Congo by the end of 2007.
The Rainforest Foundation need our help now to safeguard the basic human rights of indigenous peoples who play a crucial role in protecting Congo’s rainforests. Please [...]

The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates

ScienceDaily reported today, in an article entitled “Primates: Extinction Threat Growing For Mankind’s Closest Living Relatives”, about a report titled “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2006-2008,” compiled by 60 experts from 21 countries, prepared by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), [...]

Wildlife Pays the Price for Myanmar Chinese Demand

The remaining wild elephants, tigers and bears in Myanmar’s forests are being hunted down slowly and sold to China. Nestled in hills in a rebel-controlled enclave on the Chinese border, the “Las Vegas in the jungle” casino town is clearly branching out from narcotics and prostitution into the illegal wildlife business. Besides row upon row [...]

Global Warming Up, Peace Prize Down

Just a few days after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr., findings of a study have been released by the National Academy of Sciences showing that Greenhouse Gas emissions has pushed stronger-than-expected and sooner-than-expected Climate Change.
Carbon Dioxide emissions are 35% [...]

Jane Goodall: What separates us from the apes?

Traveling from Ecuador to Africa, Jane Goodall takes the audience on an ecological journey, discussing highlights and low points of her experiences in the jungle.
She shows how progress is helping research (DNA analysis) and hurting the environment (clear-cutting). And she draws a dozen parallels between primate and human behaviour, making [...]

Two Years Left to Save Wild Orangutans from Extinction!

Dutch ecologist Willie Smits says he will never forget the day in October 1989 when he saw the desperately sad eyes of an orangutan baby looking at him from a dark cage on a market in the Indonesian seaport of Balikpapan.
Smits was so disturbed that he returned to the market that same evening, just in [...]

Primate Behaviour and Conservation Field Course in Costa Rica

The State University of New York and East Stroudsburg University are running Primate Behaviour and Conservation Field Courses in their research centre in North-East Costa Rica. The course is aimed at undergraduates or early level graduates who have little or no experience in the field, and 3 separate courses are being run over Winter and [...]

New Guards Challenge Loggers

A new scheme has been put into place in Tanjung Puting National Park, Indonesia, to help curb the massive illegal logging problem. The park covers 416,000 hectares and is home to 4000 Orangutans, 30 other mammal species, 260 bird species and 17 different reptiles.
A new network of guard posts has been set up to enable [...]

Retail Responsibly for Orangutans

Experts at Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, have called on us all to recognise the plight of the rare and diminishing species, the Orangutan. In a conference held on Thursday, Cheryl Knott, a leading Orangutan expert on a project at Harvard University, explained how something as simple as buying the right brands can truly make a big [...]

Pittsburgh Zoo Joins the Climate Campaign

Pittsburgh Zoo has started a new program called One Degree of Change, which is aimed at the local people of Pittsburgh or any community – to give them hints and tips on how they can help climate change in their every day lives. 
Dr Peter Fashing is the founder of this initiative, following a trip to [...]

Tiny Bundle of Marmoset Joy at London Zoo

The Zoological Society of London [ZSL] is celebrating the birth of a new baby black-tailed marmoset – the very first of it’s kind in a Zoo! Only a few weeks old, the Marmoset only measures 12cm long. The keepers have kept well away to prevent upsetting the parents, so are yet to find out whether [...]

Amazon River Trip 2008

The World Wildlife Federation is offering the trip of a lifetime through the Amazon Rainforest between 7th-16th March 2008. You will sail down the river through the rainforest, on your way encountering many beautiful and rare species such as dolphins, monkeys, macaws, butterflies and frogs. There is no work involved, and it is simply a [...]

An Exotic Pet Trade

International Animal Rescue [IAR] have released a new factsheet, concerning the number of exotic animals captured and exported in the illegal pet trade.
The trade in wild animals as pets causes suffering to millions of animals, disrupts ecosystems and drives species to extinction. The trade also provides a route for disease transmission, which poses a [...]

WWF Paper Dispenser

The World Wildlife Federation ad campaigns consistently utilize their existing surroundings very well. Here we have a paper dispenser with South America cut out, and green foil to tint your view… “clearly conveying that with every piece of paper you take, you’re taking away from the greenness of south america. How multisensory and engaging beyond [...]

Sustainability: More than a Slogan

The Sustainable Furniture Council is a non-profit industry association founded at High Point, NC in October 2006 to promote sustainable practices among manufacturers, retailers, and consumers alike.
The SFC recognizes the overwhelming scientific consensus that our world is experiencing dangerous global climate change. SFC members acknowledge the tremendous urgency, and will take immediate steps to [...]

RSPCA Animal Welfare Footprint

Reptiles are up, wild birds are down, chickens are getting better but monkeys aren’t moving, according to a ground-breaking report from the RSPCA published Monday.
The charity’s second annual statistical look at animal welfare in the UK, taking in wildlife to farming, research animals to pets, highlights several stories including:

Trevi Fountain turned Blood Red

A group calling itself the ATM Azionefuturista 2007 threw a bucket of red paint into one of Rome’s most famous monument, turning it into a bloodied protest canvas.
A man threw the bucket of red paint into the Trevi Fountain on Friday, in an attempt to highlight the impending climate change disaster to an audience of [...]

Prime Concern Joins Design21

Prime Concern is pleased to announce it now has it’s own profile on Social Design Network Design21.
Prime Concern founders, Julia and Kate, are present and active amongst the community of Socially Conscious Designers and Social Organisations, so take a look and join the Prime Concern Design21 group for more information.

Primate Husbandry Workshop

Two zookeepers from Utah’s Hogle Zoo are planning to speak to Primate caregivers around the world in an attempt to increase knowledge of Primate husbandry and hopefully improving conservation efforts.
Their best success to date, was a mother-daughter Orangutan reunion: Mother Eve gave birth to daughter Acara in captivity, and with immediate problems having been [...]

Tribute to World Zoo Legend, Molly Badham

Molly Badham, the inspired animal lover who co-founded Twycross Zoo and turned it into one of Britain’s best-loved attractions, has died.
Molly Badham was a surrogate mum, with a big difference. For over 40 years Molly played mother to baby chimps in Twycross Zoo. 40 years after opening and Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire is still going [...]

A Gorilla, Phil Collins and Cadbury’s Dairy Milk

Back in September, Cadbury’s Dairy Milk launched a very clever “gorilla marketing” commercial, literally. Their 90 second Dairy Milk bar video doesn’t feature chocolate once, not verbally or visually, but profiles a Gorilla playing the drums along to a certain Phil Collins “classic”.

Guerilla marketing is a low-budget, unconventional spin on marketing [...]

De Waal Compares Primate and Political Behaviours

Humans may have more in common with monkeys, chimpanzees and other non-human primates than they think, according to Frans de Waal, C.H. Candler professor of primate behaviour.
De Waal, whom TIME magazine designated as one of “100 People Who Shape Our World,” described the uncanny similarities between human and ape behavior in the inaugural lecture for [...]

Volunteer in the Congo!

The African Conservation Taskforce is currently seeking a Volunteer Assistant Conservation Manager, to work in the Virunga National Park in the DR Congo.
The volunteer will cover 2 roles; Administration for the African Conservation Taskforce, and Primate Care Assistant. The main areas of the job will include feeding, behavioural observations and health checks, and giving talks [...]

Baby Lemur Gollum: Re-united with Mother

A baby ring-tailed Lemur, 6 weeks premature and found abandoned in the enclosure, has been re-accepted by his mother.
‘Gollum’ weighed only 40g when he was originally found, however 2-hourly feeds and round the clock care by the staff at Blair Drummond Safari Park ensured his survival. The rejected youngster was then placed in an [...]

Mountain Gorilla Tourism is Growing

Uganda’s Wildlife Authority has said it is going to start exposing two more groups of Mountain Gorillas to tourists at it’s lucrative National Park.
Tourists pay up to $500, plus safari lodging costs, to see these endangered animals, however they have months, sometimes years to customize them to human contact, and Rangers have to spend [...]

Thinking & Acting Sustainably: Profile of a 21st Century Professional

A one day workshop for professionals from PP4SD and The Institution of Environmental Sciences will be held in London, on 5th December, 2007.
The majority of professionals in the environmental field need sustainable development knowledge and skills in their employment but most undergraduate programmes provide insufficient knowledge and skills for professionals to cope with the sustainable [...]

VOLUNTEERS: Conservation and Culture in the Amazon

Volunteer Latin America are looking for new volunteers to work on Conservation and Culture in the Amazon.
Situated on the equator, Ecuador is the smallest country in the Andean Highlands. Despite its size it is probably the world’s most bio-diverse country, crammed with an astounding variety of flora and fauna. Combined with its beautiful colonial architecture, [...]

Thailand Research Opportunity

Stony Brook University in New York are offering a fantastic opportunity to join a research project in the Phu Kieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand.
As a Field Assistant, you will be studying the Behavioural Ecology of the Phayre’s Leaf Monkey, including socio-ecological models of group life, ecology of female social relationships, and sexual strategies. Basic accommodation [...]

Chimps Cry Like Children

Primate experts at UK based St. Andrews University, have found that Chimps show a high level of Theory of Mind when calling for help from their peers.
Tests were conducted on wild troops in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, for 6 months, and the results show an expansion on the use of the cries over and above [...]

University of Washington Accused of Falsifying USDA Reports

University of Washington officials in Seattle are accused of filing false reports to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, according to a complaint filed with the USDA by the national research watchdog organization, SAEN.
Georgianne Nienaber wrote on OpEdNews.com yesterday, that a major news conference to release details of the complaint is scheduled on THURSDAY, 10:15 [...]